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From: | Aaron Bentley |
Subject: | Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings? |
Date: | Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:30:00 -0400 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040306) |
Marcus Sundman wrote:
On Saturday 28 August 2004 09:14, Aaron Bentley wrote:Marcus Sundman wrote:Practically speaking it's wrong since it severely limits what encodings can be used, since the file would have to contain a byte sequence equivalent to a string like '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>' encoded in ANSI X3.4-1986.Not so: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-guessingYou are correct. The xml spec does indeed recognize a special case. Besides ANSI X3.4-1986 and the unicode encodings it apparently also supports EBCDIC. I stand corrected.Good that we got that cleared up. We wouldn't want to make any EBCDIC fans upset, now would we? ;-)
You also implied that the XML encoding mechanism didn't support unicode encodings other than utf-8.
Aaron
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